Salt Technique I

I have realised that my pool of paintings will soon be exhausted and that I will have to work hard once that occurs, to upload one painting every day...

This painting is just fitting into the season again - we've just had the "Eisheiligen", a european weather pattern ("The Ice Saints"), which is derived from farmers' weather observations in the late medieval times, noticing a few days of frost in May and then a sudden switch to warmer temperatures again. In the calendar the Ice Saints finish on Saint Sophie's Day (15th May), also called the "Cold Sophie" - but the weather pattern, which is of course not metereologically confirmed, can occur later or - like this May - earlier.

Snow Moon

 Here I tried the 'salt technique' for the first time. When you place salt on a painting that is just in the right wetness state - not still too wet, not yet too dry - it will draw the water and form crystals which can look like snow flakes. A rather tricky process, as I realised.